The exterior elements of the Riverway Golf Clubhouse include a glass entrance canopy accented by exposed glulam columns and beams. Once inside, the interior banquet room showcases a 40-foot vaulted ceiling. Prior to construction, Bird faced the challenge of coordinating the tight fit of the complex geothermal, mechanical, and electrical systems beneath the building. The […]
The AMS Student Nest is a new student union building (SUB) sitting at the heart of the University of British Columbia campus. Working on a constrained site, Bird built the five-storey, mixed-use building between the existing SUB and the new alumni building while ensuring all deliveries were handled on a just-in-time basis. The LEED®registered Platinum […]
The building includes a five-storey atrium and a showstopping wood staircase. The facility provides learning spaces for more than 7,000 students, including three lecture theatres ranging in size from 70 to 350 seats, leading-edge wet laboratories, clean room laboratories, and high headroom laboratories with two- and five-tonne overhead cranes for large-scale experiments. The wet labs […]
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) is a unique addition to the University of British Columbia’s campus, boasting a 6,500-square-metre auditorium-style, bowl-shaped landscape and copper foil membrane roof system.
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) is a unique addition to the University of British Columbia’s campus, boasting a 6,500-square-metre auditorium-style, bowl-shaped landscape and copper foil membrane roof system.